02-27-2018, 03:40 PM
The concealed carry reciprocity bill (meaning any gun owner approved for concealed carry by one state's LE should be able to concealed carry in every other state, regardless of their concealed carry laws) should absolutely not be a rider on the Fix NICS bill. I very much hope that Congress does the right thing and decouples the two.
Fix NICS (background check database), universal background checks, heavy pressure on agencies to report unqualified gun-owners (criminals, domestic abusers, mentally ill...) into NICS as required or face massive penalty, nixing the 3-day max for the fed to complete a background check, better LE preventive and active shooter training/response, and red flag laws allowing authorities to remove guns from those credibly reported as a violent threat to others........are the gun safety/control measures that I'd like to see most.
I think it also makes sense to raise the gun purchase age to 21 for all guns, as Florida just did and Trump said he'd like to do (though he seems to have dropped that plan after having lunch with the NRA brass). Limiting magazines to 10 is something I could support too.
As for banning AR15s, if all the other changes/improvements above were implemented and worked much better than now, I'm not sure that would be necessary and I don't give a shit if gun lovers own them for sport and recreation. But, there's no denying that they're the mass murderers' preferred weapon and right now authorities are not doing enough to prevent mass murderers from buying them and using them to gun down innocent people, more and more frequently. So, it would not bother me if they were banned, especially if nothing else is done on a federal level.
Fix NICS (background check database), universal background checks, heavy pressure on agencies to report unqualified gun-owners (criminals, domestic abusers, mentally ill...) into NICS as required or face massive penalty, nixing the 3-day max for the fed to complete a background check, better LE preventive and active shooter training/response, and red flag laws allowing authorities to remove guns from those credibly reported as a violent threat to others........are the gun safety/control measures that I'd like to see most.
I think it also makes sense to raise the gun purchase age to 21 for all guns, as Florida just did and Trump said he'd like to do (though he seems to have dropped that plan after having lunch with the NRA brass). Limiting magazines to 10 is something I could support too.
As for banning AR15s, if all the other changes/improvements above were implemented and worked much better than now, I'm not sure that would be necessary and I don't give a shit if gun lovers own them for sport and recreation. But, there's no denying that they're the mass murderers' preferred weapon and right now authorities are not doing enough to prevent mass murderers from buying them and using them to gun down innocent people, more and more frequently. So, it would not bother me if they were banned, especially if nothing else is done on a federal level.